Observations on the Automaton Chess Player
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1819
- Pages
- 25
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Observations on the Automaton Chess Player is an 1819 London pamphlet, published by an anonymous Oxford graduate, examining the famous chess-playing automaton known as the Turk, which toured Europe astonishing audiences. The writer probes how the illusion of a machine that could play chess was achieved. The book is a primary document in the history of the celebrated hoax. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
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Book facts
- Author
- Oxford Graduate
- First published
- 1819
- Reading time
- About 15 minutes
- Pages
- 25
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Humor
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online